St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-08
REGULAR ARMY NEWS.

Private Nicholas KreY, Light Battery F,
Fourth artillery, Fort Smelling, has been
granted months furlough for the purpose
OF visiting in this city.
Maj. Edward Moale, First infantry, now at
Fort Shaw, Mont, has been directed to re-
port by telegraph to the commanding general
OF the division of the Pacific, for assignment
to a station.
First LieutS. William T. Stewart and John
A. Lundeen, of the Fourth artillery, formerly
on duty with the light battery of that regi-
ment at Fort Smelling, are members of a court
martial now in session at Fort Warren, Mass.
Authority has been given the commander
at Fort keogh Mont, to grant furlough for
two months from April l, 1887. to Private
James r. Lane, Company B, Fifth infantry,
for the purpose of visiting his home in Min
neapolis.
Capt. Charles C. HOOD, Twenty-fourth in
fantry. has been appointed inspector of GER
tain clothing at the recruiting rendezvous in
Philadelphia, Pa, for which First Lieut.. Hugh
l.. Scott, Seventh cavalry, recruiting officer,
is responsible.
Authority has been given the commanding
officer of Fort Pembina, Oak, to grant fur
Tough for two months to Private Charles
Snapp, Company /, Fifteenth infantry, on
his re-eDlistment in the army. to enable him
to visit his relatives in Louisville, KY. Pri-
vate Snapp has been in the United States
army over twenty-three years.
n Lieut.. Col. Edward Collins, Seventh in
fantry, now at Milton, Mass, has been
ordered to report in peSson to the command
ing general, department of the Platte, for
assignment to Station Col. Collins was
commanding officer of Fort Pembina, OAK,
from 1877 to 1852, when he was promoted
from captain, Seventeenth infantry, to be
major of the First infantry.
The death is announced of Capt. Henry c..
Pratt, Thirteenth infantry, at Fort Stanton,
N. NJ. Capt. Pratt served in the volunteer
service during the war in the respective
grades of second and first lieutenant and
captain of the Thirty-eighth New York id
fantry in 1862, and captain of the Thirteenth
New York heavy artillery in 1864; was ap-
pointed lieutenant in the Thirteenth United
States infantry in 1866, and received his pro-
motion to captalncy in that regiment in
June, 1876.
Jay Stone, chief of the correspondence
division in the Office of the secretary Of war
al Washington, d. c., was visitor at depart
ment headquarters yesterday. Mr.. Stone will
be remembered by many in this vicinity as
the chief clerk in the office of Judge Advo-
cate Barr, at department Headquarters in
this city from 1874 until 1880, when he was
transferred to Washington for special duty
in the Office of the secretary of war. In the
fall of 1877 he was stenOgrapher to the Sitting
Bull commission.
The following promotions and appoint
mentS are announced from the war depart
ment: Promotions-Lieut Col. James NJ.
Whittemore, ordnance department. to be
colonel, vice McAllister, deceased; Maj.
Francis HI. Parker, ordnance department, to
be lieutenant colonel, vice Whittmore, pro-
noted: Capt. John A. Kress, ordnance
department. to be major, vice Parker, pro-
NOTED; First Lieut.. Walter l.. Fisk, engineer
corps, to be captain. vice Capt. Henry NJ.
Adams, promoted major; Second Lieut.. Cas-
sus E. Gillette, engineer corps, to be first
lieutenant, vice Fisk, promoted: Maj. Edward
Collins, First infantry, tobe lieutenant colonel
Seventh infantry, vice Chapman, retired :;
Capt. Edward Moale, Third infantry, of Fort
Shaw, Mont, to be major First infantry. vice
Collins, promoted; First Lieut.. John W. Han
nay, Third infantry, of Fort Shaw, Mont, 10
be captain, vice Moale, promoted; Second
Lieut.. Frank B. Mccoy, Third infantry, of
Fort Shaw, Mont, to be first lieutenant. vice
Hannay, promoted. Appointments-Rev.
William F. Hubbard, of New York, to be post
chaplain, vice Brady, deceased; Rev.
Henry Swift, of Dakota to be post chaplain.
vice G D. Croker, retired from active
service; Second Lieut.. Charles l.. Potter,
Fifth cavalry. has been transferred to the
corps of engineers, to ill the vacancy made
by the promotion of Lieut.. Gillette.